The arrival of corpus linguistics has revitalised:
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Correct answer: A. the writing of observation-based grammars
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Corpus-based descriptive grammars such as the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (Biber et al., 1999) and the COBUILD grammars rest on evidence of actual use.
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